LITTLE-KNOWN TIPS & TRICKS WITH AFFILIATE LINKS

Darren Andrews Okay, I'm an ideas guy. I'll admit it. My aim in this little
article is to reveal to you some ideas that you've likely
never heard before. Whether you are a program manager or an
affiliate, or both, there should something of value below!

Idea #1 - Affiliate Link Rotation

IF you own an affiliate program then why not increase the
incentive of your affiliates by placing *their* link on
your site? I mean that your home page *is* hardcoded to
their affiliate link!

All you'd need to do is set up a redirect on your index page
with their affiliate link in it.

Why do this? Well, it will get you a whole bucket full more
affiliates for one thing! Can you imagine how they will feel?
"Wow, this merchant's going to credit me with all sales /
sub-affiliates that come to his home page!"

There are two methods you could employ to rotate this,
depending upon your traffic.

(a) If you get only a few sales you might offer your new
affiliates the opportunity to have their link remain
active until they get a sale - a guarantee from you!

(b) If you have a high volume of sales then you may wish to
allow only a certain time period (or, more fairly, a
certain number of hits) for each affiliate link.

Of course, how easily you can do this will depend upon your
affiliate software.

Idea #2 - Getting SubAffiliates

If you are an affiliate and want more sub-affiliates then
you *must* offer an incentive to your subscribers / site
visitors to join up under you.

Here's an example of how I did this. I set up a page on one
of my sites (www.writers-and-publishers.com/earnmoney.html )

and offered to place an ad on my site for anyone who had an
article accepted -- as long as they signed up through my
affiliate link (for a writing course) as my subaffiliate!

This is a double benefit to me because (a) I get more
subaffiliates and (b) it's a great incentive for people to
use my service.

The result? Well, I now have over 60 subaffiliates in that one
program alone. I get a check *every* month and I do absolutely nothing!

You'll need to adapt this to your own site / ezine of course.

Idea #3 - Personally Host Your Superaffiliates' Cloaked
Affiliate Links!

There are a few cloaking devices out there now, no not the
Klingon ones, the ones that use zero-frame technology to
keep your URL present in the browser address bar at all times.

If you own an affiliate program why not offer a select few
superaffiliates or JV partners their own cloaked redirect
page on your site?

Why do this?

Well, if you don't they might do it from their site and
you'll lose the URL when visitors from your superaffiliate's
site visit your own. This will lose you name recognition and
possibly book-marking if they have it in their minds to use
only the absolute URL (which will be your superaffiliate's
site and not your own!).

Another reason is that it will give a greater benefit to
your superaffiliate - not least of which will be the
perception among his own subscribers that he is *not* pushing
an affiliate program!

To learn how to set up redirects (and about cloakers) visit:
http://www.writers-viral-syndicator.com/redirect.html

About the Author

Darren Andrews is an Internet marketer and likes unique
ideas - preferrably no-cost ones! One of his own "unique"
ideas, supported by some of the top names in Internet marketing,
can be viewed at:
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